diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 048578f3aa..80741e078c 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.3 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.5 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "adlfs"
@@ -3288,6 +3288,21 @@ files = [
 [package.extras]
 windows-terminal = ["colorama (>=0.4.6)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pyiceberg-core"
+version = "0.4.0"
+description = ""
+optional = true
+python-versions = "*"
+files = [
+    {file = "pyiceberg_core-0.4.0-cp39-abi3-macosx_10_12_x86_64.macosx_11_0_arm64.macosx_10_12_universal2.whl", hash = "sha256:5aec569271c96e18428d542f9b7007117a7232c06017f95cb239d42e952ad3b4"},
+    {file = "pyiceberg_core-0.4.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:5e74773e58efa4df83aba6f6265cdd41e446fa66fa4e343ca86395fed9f209ae"},
+    {file = "pyiceberg_core-0.4.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_17_armv7l.manylinux2014_armv7l.whl", hash = "sha256:7675d21a54bf3753c740d8df78ad7efe33f438096844e479d4f3493f84830925"},
+    {file = "pyiceberg_core-0.4.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:7058ad935a40b1838e4cdc5febd768878c1a51f83dca005d5a52a7fa280a2489"},
+    {file = "pyiceberg_core-0.4.0-cp39-abi3-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:a83eb4c2307ae3dd321a9360828fb043a4add2cc9797bef0bafa20894488fb07"},
+    {file = "pyiceberg_core-0.4.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d2e6138707868477b806ed354aee9c476e437913a331cb9ad9ad46b4054cd11f"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pyjwt"
 version = "2.9.0"
@@ -4658,6 +4673,7 @@ glue = ["boto3", "mypy-boto3-glue"]
 hive = ["thrift"]
 pandas = ["pandas", "pyarrow"]
 pyarrow = ["pyarrow"]
+pyiceberg-core = ["pyiceberg-core"]
 ray = ["pandas", "pyarrow", "ray", "ray"]
 s3fs = ["s3fs"]
 snappy = ["python-snappy"]
@@ -4668,4 +4684,4 @@ zstandard = ["zstandard"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.9, <3.13, !=3.9.7"
-content-hash = "faf7cc64ff950544f90d04eea2d54bfcc118799f2c376aa43149a1f91637033a"
+content-hash = "ba83ed937caf64aee5f9f449b3630965d8c805f75487321ead7cbed40df2c91a"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 09461ccd2f..97aca6c128 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ psycopg2-binary = { version = ">=2.9.6", optional = true }
 sqlalchemy = { version = "^2.0.18", optional = true }
 getdaft = { version = ">=0.2.12", optional = true }
 cachetools = "^5.5.0"
+pyiceberg-core = { version = "^0.4.0", optional = true }
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 pytest = "7.4.4"
@@ -827,6 +828,10 @@ ignore_missing_imports = true
 module = "daft.*"
 ignore_missing_imports = true
 
+[[tool.mypy.overrides]]
+module = "pyiceberg_core.*"
+ignore_missing_imports = true
+
 [[tool.mypy.overrides]]
 module = "pyparsing.*"
 ignore_missing_imports = true
@@ -886,6 +891,7 @@ zstandard = ["zstandard"]
 sql-postgres = ["sqlalchemy", "psycopg2-binary"]
 sql-sqlite = ["sqlalchemy"]
 gcsfs = ["gcsfs"]
+pyiceberg-core = ["pyiceberg-core"]
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 markers = [